The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
It’s so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That’s the most difficult thing about filmmaking – and that’s my main challenge in life. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
I try to turn a place on film into a mental state. I always have three or four locations that I repeat and return to in a film, to make it more mythic. But my fiction films are relatively subjective stories, experienced though one character. And that always justifies a little stylisation in terms of landscape. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don’t like films that simplify. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
